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...enabled China to become a net exporter of grain. Exports of other goods as diverse as toys and oil are increasing too. Low wages enable China to compete on price with any of the developing countries. And China can offer its trading partners in the industrialized world the lure of access to a potentially gigantic market...
...lessons are already evident. The zone's low tax rates were designed to lure U.S. and Japanese firms as well as Hong Kong and Overseas Chinese investors, but about 90% of the capital has come from businessmen in Hong Kong and Macao. A further disappointment is that instead of channeling the funds into new industries, foreign businessmen have spent most of their money constructing apartment and office buildings, resort hotels and recreation parks...
Veeck, who died last week of a heart attack at 71, was easily the most colorful baseball man never to play the game. A happy rebel against "the simple pieties of baseball," Veeck limped along on an artificial leg, dreaming up outrageous stunts to lure fans to the ball park. He installed the first exploding Scoreboard, moved the fences at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium in and out depending on the strength of visiting teams, and once gave away six pigeons to an elegant fan simply "to answer the burning question of how a dignified man would hold...
Niebuhr's strategy of reaching beyond the confines of Detroit's German community helped swell Bethel's membership sixfold in the years after the war. There was another lure: the pastor's preaching. He was, writes Fox, "the educated Protestant's Billy Sunday," who would "strut, gyrate, jerk, bend and quake." Bethel's growing prestige strengthened Niebuhr's hand when he took on Henry Ford, castigating the legendary automaker and other industrialists. He ended up a thoroughgoing Christian Socialist, evoking the biblical prophets and a bit of Marx as he thundered against the exploitation of labor...
...first attack on the prestigious course, De Castella, 29, led the crowd of 4,750 runners for all but two miles, finishing at 2:07:51 and breaking the old Boston record by a full minute. The athletes were apparently not the only ones spurred on by the lure of loot. Some half a million spectators refused to let the gray, humid weather dampen their spirits. "The crowd support on this course, in this race, is something I've never experienced before anywhere in the world," said De Castella. "It's unbelievable...